Jewish and Muslim communities in the United States observed some of the most sacred holidays of their respective religions despite increased security measures and concerns over hateful rhetoric as the war in the Middle East continues.

The Michigan synagogue that came under attack this week when an armed man drove his car into the building had for months been strengthening its security apparatus.

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security.

The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues has been identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials.

For big parts of the United States, the past few days have brought lots of snow and lots of cold.

A Michigan sheriff says two of the nine people wounded in a weekend shooting at a splash pad remain hospitalized in critical condition.

Authorities in Michigan say nine people have been injured in a shooting at a splash pad in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

The video had more than 18 million views at the time this story was published.

A judge has imposed a combined $1 million bond for the parents of the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School, hours after police said they were caught hiding in a commercial building.

A Michigan school leader says a third party will investigate events at Oxford High School leading up to a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded.

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A prosecutor has filed involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of a 15-year-old accused of killing four students and wounding seven other people at a Michigan high school.

Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his high school, a novel approach made possible by a law enacted after the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder and terrorism for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school.

They were later arraigned and are free on a $50,000 personal bond, according to the Oakland County sheriff's office. The Wuestenbergs are next scheduled to appear in court for a probable cause hearing on July 14, the sheriff’s office said in a release. Then, as someone is behind the vehicle, Jillian Wuestenberg jumps out and points a handgun toward a person who's recording. The sheriff's office said the couple drove away and waited for deputies to arrive. Wuestenberg served in the Air Force from 1996 to 2009, according to a story in the student-run Oakland University newspaper that quoted him.